Re: Old wine in new bottles

[Steve Cohen <stevecoh@mcs.com>]

I think you're right.  It isn't that hard to do.  I had put IE4 on my system
along with Netscape, my default browser, because I wanted to check how a web
page worked there.  Immediately, Netscape became unstable, crashing more often
than not.  Finally, having accomplished with IE4 what I set out to do, I
decided to get rid of it, following the Netscape instructions for doing so,
which was nothing but running Add/Remove.  It worked like a charm and Netscape
was once again reliable.

As far as the file associations go, I would certainly expect them to be
removed, and holler if not.  It isn't such a big deal anyway, both Netscape
and IE will take over these if you install them.  I forget whether they give
you the choice, but I think they do.

Declan McCullagh wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, P.A. Petricone wrote:
>
> > The more I learn about this settlement, the more it looks like ms
> > technically snookered DOJ into letting them leave the ie code on the
> > OSR2 system with it's buttons hidden, at least for the option that most
> > OEMs will elect to use. If the default file associations stay in place,
> > the first click on a html, gif, or jpj file that may have come with the
> > machine or 3rd party app - off she goes! There are some 200+ ie specific
> > files sitting there waiting for an opportunity to break something.
>
> This is an interesting point. But is it true?
>
> That is, have you verified this by running A/R and also by killing the
> icon?  As a Unix-type myself, I'm not familiar enough with Windows to
> guess at the behavior without trying it.
>
> -Declan
> >
> >
> >